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a111: Logged on 2017-11-15 18:19 phf: manual meaning that i see
a vpatch in any random place, i post it (obviously it benefits me, more content etc.)
mircea_popescu: "investigative" in the sense of "here's half the picture, let's hope together that
a) you're not smart enough to understand the elements it's constructed out of are meaningless and b) the areas it doesn't cover are meaningful". basically, the EXACT nonsense as in "wash dc pizzeria scandal"/"#metoo" : free association game.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Anyone want to put
a bet against one bitcent for "Bitcoin passes 12500 (per '!~ticker --market all' VWLA) while I am enroute from StL to Montevideo
BingoBoingo: Well, appears when the booze is preventing new memory formation you get
a lot of "WTF? Why no butt patting the entertainment at work anymore"
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, imdb on lollobrigida : "She was the daughter of
a furniture manufacturer, and grew up in the pictorial mountain village."
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> other team's cheerleader bus, au naturel. exactly what teh airmen meant by "tailhookers all weather attack" fliers dumped on area colleges. << An appeal of hanging out with the old drunks in recovery is that their time drinking often seems
a sort of cultural cosmoline.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, why did i write the original ? i had nfi when i did what the future'd be like. SURELY it was no possible perception of value. but this is merely an indication of just how fucking valuable the whole thing is, if it builds meaning upon itself in
a manner that defies imagination.
mircea_popescu: e split-second right before fight, there's not enough brain in any skull that ever passed the woman's middle to manage such ample feats. some try, but why should i take amphetamine today to compensate for having been lazy
a decade ago ?
a111: Logged on 2017-08-06 16:51 mircea_popescu: (this point, in either "intern can progress" or "sit in forum and access meaning" presentation, is the fundamental mechanism of both "rounders" and that "poolhall junkies" cheapo rehack of it : that the dude playing can decide the girl's future,
a degree of magnitude above her own capacity. take that away -- it's not worth doing. and you sure as fuck ain't meeting the head of ny law firm socially, and play $X with him so he g
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the sea is rich ; but the fisherman's stuck playing
a loser game.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: diana_coman it never went. see... take say the early greek wars. those dudes did essentially
a society game : the men stripped and cockwrestled on
a field on
a sunday. the "defeat" of the defeated was
a two phase game. phase 1, where their line broke. phase 2, most important, where THEIR WOMEN spread out for THE OTHER GUYS. because fuck you loser. exactly how college football worked when it worked, you mean means you get the
mircea_popescu: in the specific sense that by the time "you figure it out" they're gone. today, everyone wants to go to college. today it's too late to go to college. everyone wants
a 401k ? guess what... too late to. and so on.
mircea_popescu: recall that schmuck with the french isp, which upon examination turned out to be 0% isp and 100%
a vehicle for the inept vanities and worldviews of
a few idle and overcomfortable schmucks ?
mircea_popescu: nobody in his line of work has EVER made
a bitcoin's worth in one year no matter what they did. but does he have enough sense to go... hmmm... i'll treat this as an advance, and use it to finance my supposedly useful work coming back with deliveries worth at least 10x that, because thaty's how useful i am, and see what happens
mircea_popescu: and yes, i'd much rather pour
a coupla bitcents into the ground instead of paying "hiring experts" etcetera. by very far.
mircea_popescu: has it yet been
A YEAR since the discussion of hiring
a motherfcucking chinese office girl was tabled ?
a111: Logged on 2017-11-22 11:41 RagnarDanneskjol: mircea_popescu I may have someone worth inviting to chan for interview in the coming days. Most of the folks I know over there are primarily oral translators, so having to look around
a bit. Just got back yesterday - BJ is
a real shithole but the people are adorable, lots of good duck. FYI - 'VPN AC' (Romanian) seems to be the only one working well/consistently behind the firewall (I've used many) and
mircea_popescu: the amount of jobs awaiting workers exceeds the amount of availavble workers by
a factor never before seen in human history ; not even during the saudi reign 20 years ago. not even in china. nowhere.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-02 22:02 mircea_popescu: i've been trying to hire
a bunch of artists for what, 5 years now ?
mircea_popescu: i've been trying to hire
a bunch of artists for what, 5 years now ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: !~later tell apeloyee hey, do you want
a job working for minigame ?
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-12-02 18:08 asciilifeform: diana_coman: you do have
a point , though, an ffa that is an ideal mathematical description of every relevant bound, would look slightly different from the ffa i actually have, that has to actually run on idjit cmachine iron in something like real time.
mircea_popescu: the "think of it as heat" mental experiment imo has the great advantage of clearing the mind of all sorts of bizarro world "nsa is cool" assumptions about "electromagnetic signature",
a magical property of radiation to "know who its daddy is" or somesuch
mircea_popescu: (teh carrier, 8x8 artillery truck uses
a 40-L diesel engine or somesuch)
mircea_popescu: anyway. the general point here being that fox hunt
a LOT more difficult than everyone ever expects, be it alf, pentagon, etcetera.
mircea_popescu:
a 12 meter rocket + the semi truck carrying it x3 + tankers + c&c + meteo etc ?
mircea_popescu: (amusingly, pentagon went in with the same expectations ; but never actually managed to land
a hit)
a111: Logged on 2017-11-04 15:47 asciilifeform: incidentally, rf 'fox hunting' is at this point
a traditional sport in ru, and the 'fox' is always found .
mircea_popescu: anwyay, revisiting an ancient conversation re
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=mining+is+a+bug : i have to thoroughly concede this point to asciilifeform . the model is as follows : if
a)
a PoW system exists in which b)
a participating entity can recognize work done by itself as opposed to work done by others then it NECESSARILY follow that entity can, and therefore it ALSO follows that it eventually will c) impose further con
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: also should be
a comment there, after the pragma "if you unban these careful about wswap)
mircea_popescu: he has
a good nose sniffing it out, but i don't believe your sicilian's "if thumbs hurt, cut arm at elbow to be sure" approach is warranted. next patch put
a warning in the comments an' let 'em be.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-30 16:00 asciilifeform: reminds of : ''I was such
a pure and terrifying Aryan that they even put me in
a special detachment. Its mission was to find out how the Jews always knew what the S.S. was going to do next There was
a leak somewhere, and we were out to stop it' He looked bitter and affronted, remembering it, even though he had been that leak. 'Was the detachment successful in its mission?' I said. 'I'm happy to say,' said Arpad, 'that fourteen S.S. m
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "linux journal" advertises "puppet" and some "in their words" about "becoming
a cloud native organisation".
mircea_popescu: yes but by now it is counteradvisable to work for eg nsa if you're not poor from
a purely wealth management perspective.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo everything that's not run by usg runs better than anything that's run by usg. you've got
a better chance to manage an airplane bombing strike by talking to some obscure black bloc than the dod.
phf: lobbes: hehe, you probably ran into me testing
a feature, but that's
a good idea :)
lobbes: phf aha nice easter egg with
a specific search term in btcbase.org. I'll leave it unmentioned so others may have the joy of stumbling on it :)
mod6: I'll try see about finding
a new gnat laying around and try that.
mircea_popescu: it conceivably was
a bit of personal bitterness over some ancient story about taping people in hotels. or any other thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well... prison life can be hard for
a 68 yo whom teh russians particularly dun like. bonus points : his lawyer "suicided" self by jumping before train.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, if you want another vignette : dan adamescu was this fellow, 2nd richest romanian (excluding mp, of course) in 2013. then the govt took its krysha back, his company magically was now bankrupt, by 2016 he was being sent to jail for supposedly trying to bribe the judgtes in
a 1e8 civil case with 20k. early 2017 had died, of septicemia, for which he had been placed in medical coma. it all begun with
a knee ope
mircea_popescu: (i guess this isn't obvious to anyone but me, but obviously once the item is in chan the very first next extension is "now let it take
a list of urls in paste from user")
a111: Logged on 2017-12-01 23:44 phf: well, scratch that, i'm just ranting. once you have the setup, it's
a pretty smooth operation i suppose. i just don't want to bother with the whole backing up the internet thing
mircea_popescu: you know for
a fact that in 3-400mn walkers there's at least
a dozen or two chicks who could have done it.
mircea_popescu: in my topgun hs class we had
a chick being chem first hand and another being either math or physics 2nd hand, whichever line was thin.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if anyone remembers, BUT! there was
a point in earth's history when what chick said was not automatically dumb.
mircea_popescu: pretty much everything, from usenet to "what will the chick you pick up via irc or from
a game lan party say".
mircea_popescu: two major divides :
a) post cunt-is-for-fucking late 80s what with the condoms, pills, disco scene end and b) pre internet-is-for-everyone 2005 or so
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> anyway, there's
a fundamental divide between people whose intuitive understanding of computer is "basically large phone switchboard with robotic switchmaid" and people whose intuitive understanding of computer is "squee! apple drawing thing!" << In sixth grade computer (Apple II) was introduced to class as drawing thing (turtle graphics)
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's
a fundamental divide between people whose intuitive understanding of computer is "basically large phone switchboard with robotic switchmaid" and people whose intuitive understanding of computer is "squee! apple drawing thing!"
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the concept of "programming" in
a sense other than direct memory write was something i had to deliberately learn against inclination. like mult table, about the same time. "wtf is this bs and why am i writing words"
phf: maybe they taught it, but seeing
a boolean map really translate into understanding of how you apply dat shit to bit twiddling etc.
mircea_popescu discovered xor while trying to make z80 gfx as
a 7-8-9yo.
mircea_popescu: "it is better for your jet fighter to resemble
a stove than
a wafer".
mircea_popescu: very much
a case of "are you trying to learn how to fly the f-14 on the basis of having been
a f-4 pilot, or are you trying to learn how to fly the f-14 because you loved f-14 flight sim on crapple as
a teen ?"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think it's because computing class is postodctoral, whereas language class is highschool. so they learn the x:=
a a:=b b:=x "trick" way before anyone even explains xor.
mircea_popescu: TomServo i count that like i count microsoft windows offering. it's the anti-item. gia is all about fucking, not all about being
a dork.
phf: well, scratch that, i'm just ranting. once you have the setup, it's
a pretty smooth operation i suppose. i just don't want to bother with the whole backing up the internet thing
☟︎ phf: i believe the only correct solution at this point are terabyte backup drives with everything you ever touch, i suppose that's what asciilifeform's been doing for
a while now